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English
Etymology
From exophoric + -ally.
Adverb
exophorically (not comparable)
- In an exophoric way: with the referent being conditionally dependent on contextual cues outside (external to) an utterance.
- Antonym: endophorically
- Hyponyms: deictically, homophorically
1974, Richard D. Brecht, “Deixis in embedded structures”, in Foundations of Language, volume 11, number 4, pages 489-518:The picture is unclear, for some verbs seem to permit all of the logical possibilities exemplified in (9)–(15) while others allow only some. I will have more to say about the conditions under which a deictic element in a sentential complement may be interpreted endophorically or exophorically in the discussion of mood and presupposition below.
2019, Mohamed Abdou Moindjie, “The cohesiveness of personal reference in translation: a case study of French and English”, in International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, volume 8, number 4, →DOI, pages 130-136:Personal reference is a co-hyponym of textual cohesion; it deals with the first, second and third persons singular or plural; it can occur exophorically, or endophorically as anaphora or cataphora. The present paper is a descriptive study on the cohesiveness and translatability of personal reference; it describes its occurrence and cohesiveness in translating from French into English.
2020, Terra Edwards, Diane Brentari, “The grammatical incorporation of demonstratives in an emerging tactile language”, in Front Psychol, volume 11, →DOI, →PMID, →PMCID, page 579992:Therefore, we have replaced adnominal and adverbial demonstratives with a single category: “demonstrative modifier,” which can be applied either exophorically or endophorically, i.e., to refer to referents in the immediate environment, or to refer to linguistic aspects of the unfolding discourse.